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Our Rights, Our Information Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is an independent, non-partisan, international non-governmental organisation, mandated to ensure the practical realisation of human rights in the countries of the Commonwealth. In 1987, several Commonwealth professional associations founded CHRI. They believed that while the Commonwealth provided member countries a shared set of values and legal principles from which to work and provided a forum within which to promote human rights, there was little focus on the issues of human rights within the Commonwealth. The objectives of CHRI are to promote awareness of and adherence to the Commonwealth Harare Principles, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other internationally recognised human rights instruments, as well as domestic instruments supporting human rights in Commonwealth member states. Through its reports and periodic investigations, CHRI continually draws attention to progress and setbacks to human rights in Commonwealth countries. In advocating for approaches and measures to prevent human rights abuses, CHRI addresses the Commonwealth Secretariat, member governments and civil society associations. Through its public education programmes, policy dialogues, comparative research, advocacy and networking, CHRI’s approach throughout is to act as a catalyst around its priority issues. The nature of CHRI’s sponsoring organisations allows for a national presence and an international network. These professionals can also steer public policy by incorporating human rights norms into their own work and act as a conduit to disseminate human rights information, standards and practices. These groups also bring local knowledge, can access policy-makers, highlight issues, and act in concert to promote human rights. CHRI is based in New Delhi, India, and has offices in London, UK, and Accra, Ghana. International Advisory Commission: Sam Okudzeto - Chairperson. Members: Eunice Brookman-Amissah, Murray Burt, Yash Ghai, Alison Duxbury, Neville Linton, B.G. Verghese, Zohra Yusuf and Maja Daruwala. Executive Committee (India): B.G. Verghese – Chairperson. Members: Anu Aga, B.K.Chandrashekar, Bhagwan Das, Nitin Desai, K.S. Dhillon, Harivansh, Sanjoy Hazarika, Poonam Muttreja, Ruma Pal, R.V. Pillai, Mool Chand Sharma and Maja Daruwala – Director Executive Committee (Ghana): Sam Okudzeto – Chairperson. Members: Anna Bossman, B.G. Verghese, Neville Linton and Maja Daruwala - Director Executive Committee (UK): Neville Linton – Chairperson; Lindsay Ross – Deputy Chairperson. Members: Austin Davis, Meenakshi Dhar, Derek Ingram, Claire Martin, Syed Sharfuddin and Elizabeth Smith. * Commonwealth Journalists Association, Commonwealth Lawyers Association, Commonwealth Legal Education Association, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Commonwealth Press Union and Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. ISBN: 81-88205-52-4 © Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, 2007. Material from this report may be used, duly acknowledging the source. Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative CHRI New Delhi Office (Headquarters) CHRI London Office CHRI Africa Office B-117, Second Floor Institute of Commonwealth Studies House No.9, Samora Sarvodaya Enclave 28, Russell Square Machel Street Asylum Down New Delhi - 110 017 London WC1B 5DS opposite Beverly Hills Hotel INDIA UK Near Trust Towers, Accra, Ghana Tel: +91-11-2686-4678, 2652-8152 Tel: +44-020-7-862-8857 Tel: +00233-21-271170 Fax: +91-11-2686-4688 Fax: +44-020-7-862-8820 Tel/Fax: +00233-21-271170 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] www.humanrightsinitiative.org 2 Our Rights Our Information Empowering people to demand rights through knowledge Research and Compilation Cecelia Burgman, Carrie Gage, Claire Cronin and Reshmi Mitra Editors Maja Daruwala and Venkatesh Nayak Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative 3 Foreword The right to information has long been recognised as a ‘Fundamental Right’ of a free citizenry. It is from this right that other basic human rights can flow. No society can claim to be truly free unless it has both the instruments and the practice of providing its people with access to information. No government that claims to be democratic can deny its people the ability to participate in governance or itself refuse to be transparent to its people. Whether called the ‘freedom of information’ as it is in most countries or the ‘right to information’ as more recent access laws are referred to, it is the duty of governments to guarantee this right by implementing access to information laws. Although, the exercise of the freedom of information has now matured in several societies, it is relatively nascent in most developing countries. These countries moreover are in many cases those which are only now emerging from the incubus of a colonial hierarchy, structured to exploit the skills of its people at the least cost to the colonial masters and the economic ruin of the colonised populace. In such a system transparency was of no account and accountability encouraged only to itself, never to the public. Unfortunately despite long years of independence many countries have continued to hold information away from people and even penalise the slightest breach through such insidious laws like ‘Official Secrets Acts’ of colonial vintage. These laws were predicated on the view that the public was the enemy and a subject and had no right to seek information or explanation from the overlord government. This thinking has no place or legitimacy in today’s democratic egalitarian world and since the 1990s over 40 countries have joined in the trend toward greater openness and replaced secrecy with transparency as the fundamental norm defining governance. The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative’s (CHRI) publication, “Our Rights, Our Information-Empowering People to Demand Rights through Knowledge” show cases how the right has been used by ordinary people to change systems, redress grievances and realise other rights. It places these experiences in the historical context of the evolution of this right from an esoteric freedom of a highly enlightened society aloof from the humdrum of the prosaic world, to its recognition through the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, as a fundamental right for all. It highlights with detailed discussions the bearing the right to information will have not only on social development through promoting gender equality but also on economic development while protecting the essential requirements of humankind like the need for food and water. This book will form an essential reference work for all those seeking to mould such a right in their societies – both where the right has not yet been enacted into law and where such an empowering legislation is already in operation. 4 India, where CHRI is headquartered, passed in 2005, what has come to be known as the most radical legislation since its Constitution. Its effect on the popular consciousness has been electric. So deeply embedded and popular has the law become in just three years that any attempt to amend it, role it back, or to make information access more difficult have been defeated by a fierce public defence of the law. CHRI has been at the forefront of ensuring the law’s defence as well as its dissemination far and wide. It has taken its advocacy into South Asia, Africa and the Pacific. Out of the belief that this is the singular legal right that can improve governance, speed up development and ameliorate poverty, CHRI has published ‘Our Rights, Our Information’ as witness to the value of this right to diverse people and nations. It will surely help chart a roadmap to further strengthen the basis of the exercise of this right by all. - Wajahat Habibullah Chief Information Commissioner Central Information Commission India 5 Acknowledgements With thanks and gratitude to Aditi Datta, Gudrun Dewey, Sophie Earnshaw, Carolyn Gomes, Alison Ryan, Elizabeth Weaver, Kalpana Yadav, Swati Kapoor, Peta Fitzgibbon, Jennifer Reece, and Kenley Turville and all our colleagues at the following non-governmental organisations for their support and inputs to the book: Amnesty International Article 19 Association for Democratic Reforms Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives European Roma Rights Centre Jamaicans for Justice Mexican Institute of Environmental Rights Open Justice Initiative Parivartan Rural Development Volunteer Association Terram Transparency International Vlk (Wolf) Forest Protection Movement Women of Uganda Network Cover Design: Chenthilkumar Paramasivam Printed by: Printworld (9810185402, 9953041490) 6 Table of Contents Introduction ......................................................................................................10 Information: A Right to Realise all Rights Chapter 1 ...................................................................................................................13 The Benefits of the Right to Information Empowering People to Demand their Human Rights Democracy Underpins Human Rights Discourse Information Underpins Democracy Making Elections Fairer Information Helps Fight Corruption Poverty Reduction and the Millennium Development Goals Consultation and Participation Equitable Economic Growth Supporting a Free and Independent Media Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Reconciliation Chapter 2 ...................................................................................................................29 The Right to Information
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